TY - JOUR
T1 - A partial solution to a big problem
AU - Last AR
Y1 - 2007/11/12
N1 - 10.1001/archinte.167.20.2261-b
JO - Archives of Internal Medicine
SP - 2261
EP - 2262
VL - 167
IS - 20
N2 -
First, this is a stinging indictment of current physicians' communication skills. As one of many examples from their data, prior to the intervention only 16% of oncology fellows mentioned the word “cancer” to their patients with cancer. This is terrible by any standard. What is worse is that these fellows were selected “based on interest in communication as expressed in a brief personal statement, potential as an educator, and research in communication,”1(p454) essentially a group already predisposed to doing this “well”!
SN - 0003-9926
M3 - doi: 10.1001/archinte.167.20.2261-b
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinte.167.20.2261-b
ER -